ACE Micro-Business: A Vision of Success
How can a not-for-profit invest in for-profit businesses? This is a question that comes up from time to time when our readers see the impressive businesses popping up through the ACE ministry in St. Mary. ACE calls them micro-businesses as they are small and only have...
Marla’s Minute – How many “i’s” in Mississippi?
For the first time in years, Allen and I did something we wished we would have done before now: travel by car to see friends of ACE who have been MIA since the COVID pandemic hit. We started out in Ringgold, Georgia, where we spent the night with some friends who,...
Our Patrene Exits, Stage Right
Patrene, our wonderful administrator for ACE, is leaving for a season to take a position in the work-abroad program that the Jamaican Government offers adults to work in the states. Patrene will be gone for at least six months. We gave her a party at our own bamboo...